Monday 26th March 2012, 9:00am-5:30pm; Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road

Discussion workshops on all aspects of bioinformatics for next generation sequencing

This is a meeting for for bioinformaticians and those working with sequence data. Please come prepared to share your ideas and experiences.

Registration is required

Academic/non-commercial partipants – £10
Commercial participants – £100

Registration includes lunch, tea and wine reception from 5.30-6.30pm

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DISCUSSION WORKSHOPS

Whole group discussion: New Technologies, Anthony Rogers

Parallel session 1:

1. RNAseq, John Marioni
or
2. Big Data – Processing, Storing, Tracking, Deleting? David Jackson

Parallel session 2:

1. Regulatory Studies / Epigenetics, Boris Adryan
or
2. Assembly, Alignment and Variant Calling, Aylwyn Scally

Whole group discussion: Data Visualisation for Sequence Analysis, Simon Andrews

Keynote Speaker

Dr John Davey

Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

Genome scaffolding and adaptive introgression in Heliconius butterflies: next generation sequencing applications for non-model organisms

Major sponsors:

Agilent, Caliper, Isilon, Life Technologies, Roche, SGI

Minor sponsors:

Illumina

Organised by:

Boris Adryan (CSBC), Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute), Krys Kelly (Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge), John Marioni (EBI), Gos Micklem (CCBI), Anthony Rogers (EASIH), Aylwyn Scally (WT Sanger Institute), Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute)